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Articles | Volume 21, issue 7
Articles | Volume 21, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-1707-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-1707-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 7
Research article
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08 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 08 Apr 2024

A critical trade-off between nitrogen quota and growth allows Coccolithus braarudii life cycle phases to exploit varying environment

Joost de Vries, Fanny Monteiro, Gerald Langer, Colin Brownlee, and Glen Wheeler

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Calcifying phytoplankton (coccolithophores) utilize a life cycle in which they can grow and divide into two different phases. These two phases (HET and HOL) vary in terms of their physiology and distributions, with many unknowns about what the key differences are. Using a combination of lab experiments and model simulations, we find that nutrient storage is a critical difference between the two phases and that this difference allows them to inhabit different nitrogen input regimes.
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